Old World Memories, Հատոր 2L. C. Page, 1899 |
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Արդյունքներ 26–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... central postal districts of London - West Cen- tral and East Central- are surrounded by six others : North Western , Northern , and Eastern , to the north and east , and Western , South Western , and South Eastern , to the west and ...
... central postal districts of London - West Cen- tral and East Central- are surrounded by six others : North Western , Northern , and Eastern , to the north and east , and Western , South Western , and South Eastern , to the west and ...
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... central windows of the present street - front Charles I. stepped firmly to the neighboring scaffold , - a semi- obstructive , semi - pathetic , at the last a wholly heroic figure . It was not for much longer a palace , but long enough ...
... central windows of the present street - front Charles I. stepped firmly to the neighboring scaffold , - a semi- obstructive , semi - pathetic , at the last a wholly heroic figure . It was not for much longer a palace , but long enough ...
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... Central Hall , and its fittings are in oak , in a simple but massive style which suggests its greater nearness to the body of the English people . The Speaker sits at its northern end , facing the throne at the opposite extremity of the ...
... Central Hall , and its fittings are in oak , in a simple but massive style which suggests its greater nearness to the body of the English people . The Speaker sits at its northern end , facing the throne at the opposite extremity of the ...
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... central pillar ( once used at times for a whipping - post ) is six hundred and fifty years old . After Edward I. , for more than a third of that time , it was occupied for the sessions of the House of Commons , whose members must have ...
... central pillar ( once used at times for a whipping - post ) is six hundred and fifty years old . After Edward I. , for more than a third of that time , it was occupied for the sessions of the House of Commons , whose members must have ...
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... central nave with a superbly carved stall beneath each banner , for each knight and for his esquire before him , with aisles and chapels around the whole , and , over all , the indescrib- ably beautiful fan - traceried vault , which ...
... central nave with a superbly carved stall beneath each banner , for each knight and for his esquire before him , with aisles and chapels around the whole , and , over all , the indescrib- ably beautiful fan - traceried vault , which ...
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Abbey aisle altar ancient Archbishop arches beautiful Ben Jonson beneath Bishop bridge buildings built buried Calton Hill Cambridge Canterbury castle cathedral centre century chapel chapter-house Charles choir choir-screen Church clerestory cloisters commemorated cross crown Dean Decorated dignity Duke Durham east eastern Edinburgh Edward Edward III effigy England English exquisite famous farther George Gothic Hall Henry VIII hill Holy Hotel House King lady-chapel latter less lies Loch Lomond lofty London Lord lovely Mary's memory miles minster modern monument nave noble Norman once Oxford palace Parliament passed Prince quaint Queen reredos Richard III river Roman roof royal ruins Saint Saint Cuthbert Saxon Scotland Scottish seat shrine side southern spire splendid stands station statue stone strange Street tion tomb tower town transept triforium walls western Westminster Westminster Hall William William the Norman Winchester window York
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Էջ 293 - TO MY SUCCESSOR. If thou chance for to find A new house to thy mind, And built without thy cost: Be good to the poor, As God gives thee store, And then my labour's not lost.
Էջ 66 - And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art : thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled : only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
Էջ 292 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Էջ 230 - Vanbrugh , and is a good example of his heavy though imposing style (*Lie heavy on him, Earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee"), with a Corinthian portico in the centre and two projecting wings.
Էջ 231 - The world, surely, has not another place like Oxford ; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one, to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
Էջ 171 - The Prelate of Durham became one, and the more important, of the only two English prelates whose worldly franchises invested them with some faint shadow of the sovereign powers enjoyed by the princely churchmen of the Empire.
Էջ 70 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Էջ 143 - ' Lowland Scotland as a distinct nationality came in with two warriors and went out with two bards. It came in with William Wallace and Robert Bruce, and went out with Robert Burns and Walter Scott. The first two made the history ; the last two told the story and sang the song.
Էջ 39 - In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.